Residents were dismayed to see rainforest trees chopped down in late May as part of an upgrade of Lushington St, East Gosford.
They say the trees were marked with Xs months ago but residents in the street were not notified prior to the removal of the trees with a crane by a tree removal company.
“The crane and the tree removal company just showed up on the street and started work,” one resident said.
“One of the trees was an old, established and large eucalyptus tree, which was home to a lot of wildlife including a possum family seen in the tree daily, kookaburras, yellow crested cockatoos, king parrots, owls and more.”
Upon seeing Xs on trees, one resident on the street expressed concerns to Central Coast Council about the removal of the tree and concerns for the wildlife.
“It was ignored by the Central Coast Council,” the resident said.
“Council did not send out anyone to assess and relocate wildlife prior to chopping down the trees.”
Another resident said she was “appalled” by the removal of the tree.
“Central Coast Council chose to do nothing and it appears they do not care about wildlife or the environmental impact of their street upgrade project,” she said.
“After two or three eucalyptus trees were removed by the tree company hired by Council, Lushington St was silent.
“You used to be able to hear owls and other wildlife at night.
“Now it has completely disappeared.
“It’s a loss for the wildlife and for the residents living on this street.”
A Council spokesperson said Council was undertaking upgrade works for Lushington St to improve the road pavement and drainage.
“This is being funded under the federally funded Central Coast Roads Program,” Council said.
“A number of trees have had to be removed as they compromised the necessary design standard of the road.
“Their removal was endorsed by an ecological consultant.
“Replacement trees are to be planted, which will include planting established saplings.
“There are also three nesting boxes being placed in the existing mature trees in the vicinity of Lushington St/Waratah St in close proximity to where the trees were removed.”
Typical, sadly there is No Care for the Environment!!
Really hypocritical when so many animals lose their habitats.
We are constantly being told to look after the Environment!
However seems it’s a Case of
” Do as we Say, Not as we Do ” !
CCC done care about anything. Things constantly go reported and are constantly ignored.
It is a crying shame. Terrrigal is doing the same Beaufort Rd where they promised no trees would be removed is becoming not the treasured bird park and in part wetland it is but a building site. Outrage? I weep. Greed. Koalas almost extinct in port Macquarie, Terrigal will lament loosing its wildlife when all the trees are gone. Gosford’s tragedy, broken promises again.
Can’t help but wonder about the cumulative impacts of these tree removals. Presumably ecological consultants are assessing biodiversity impacts, not only threatened species. Lovely to hear about the care for wildlife from residents. 💚 One of the things I love most about the drive along Mandalong Road are the magnificent gum trees. 🌳🌳
Typical when the council not consulting with locals but when a resident has a dangerous tree near wires and planted by the council over 30 years ago, a suggestion of trimming the tree was too much of a massive ask and the resident was lectured by the council offices on the significance of tree conservation
You used to be able to hear owls and other wildlife at night.
“Now it has completely disappeared.
“It’s a loss for the wildlife.
absolutely despicable.
typical.. council of fools,
pen pushing bafoons
no Friends of wildlife.
SICKENING.
yep, councils don’t give a crap even when reporting the unlawful removal of trees in the street they do nothing, the people responsible don’t even get made to replace the tree’s they’ve removed and I highly doubt they were even issued with a fine. councils everywhere take your money for rates etc, yet provide very little in return apart from upping the rates every year, Oh and what happened to all those councillor’s who got the Central Coast into the shit, nothing and I do believe that some of them were even reinstated to the council too.
it’s just one huge slap in the face for the rate payers and councillor’s everywhere just don’t care
l don’t understand why owe wildlife isn’t important to the council because it’s not paying rates, l guess. even council people in this area, pay workers to leave there on side walk cut down tree and spread dotter it’s every on side of roads. borers in most trees.
we need to save the environment for future generations to grow up in to respect and love
Powerful owls are often in this area and it is part of a corridor from Rumbulara down to Brisbane Water. This is a ‘back street’ that needed curb, guttering and a safe footpath. Central Coadt Council needs to get back to an environmental focus and at a minimum replace 2 for 1 all the trees removed. The community also need to step up and be way more vocal and demanding of our councillors to take environmental action rather than pander to developer mates.